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hippy
One thing I noted on our 1000 miles in 8 days ride through Italy last year was that the skinny young riders had considerably more recovery time than us old fat people.
We were averaging 200 km a day. At that rate, if sustained, I would be finishing the Transcontinental today. I think that sustaining that level, keeping free of injury and mechanicals, would be very difficult. As it was, only four of us out of twenty seven managed to ride the entirity of the course due to issues on the way. And we had support and we had all our hotels and evening meals prebooked.